--- title: Some parents work abroad to earn more for their family; children can… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics description: Some parents work abroad to earn more for their family; children can tell them they miss them. Who acts: parents, children. A sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Parents far away: the army, work abroa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/) / 47 # Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 47 Some parents work abroad to earn more for their family; children can tell them they miss them. **Who acts:** parents, children · **What happens:** work, earn, tell, miss · **To what, where:** more, parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:47 # text = Some parents work abroad to earn more for their family; children can tell them they miss them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 abroad abroad ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 earn earn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 miss miss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | some parents | | | | | abroad *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **earn** | to-infinitive | some parents *not said here* | more | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | children | | parents *= parent* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **miss** | present | children *= child* | parents *= parent* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:47`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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